Sir Herbert Oakeley, 3rd Baronet (1791–1845) was an English churchman,

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from 1841.

Life

The third son of

Sir Charles Oakeley, 1st Baronet Sir Charles Oakeley, 1st Baronet (27 February 1751 – 7 September 1826) was an English administrator. He married Helena Beatson, a talented amateur artist, and niece of notable Scottish portrait painter Catherine Read. He was the father of Fred ...

, he was born in

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on 10 February 1791, and brought to England in 1794 by his family. After some years at

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, he entered

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. In 1810 he took a first-class in literæ humaniores, graduated B.A. on 23 February 1811, and obtained a senior studentship. He proceeded M.A. on 4 November 1813. Oakeley was ordained, and became in 1814 domestic chaplain to

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, then

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, to whom he owed subsequent preferment, and resided with the bishop for 12 years, until his marriage. He was presented by Howley to the vicarage of

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in 1822, and to the prebendal stall of Wenlock's Barn in

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. As a married man he took up residence at Ealing. By the death of his elder brother

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, without male issue, Oakeley succeeded in 1830 to the baronetcy. In 1834 Howley, now

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, presented him to the rectory of

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, a living once held by his father-in-law; the anomalous "archbishop's peculiar" of Bocking was abolished shortly after Oakeley's death. Both at Ealing and at Bocking, Oakeley was one of the first to carry out the system of parochial organisation by means of district visitors, weekday services, and Sunday-schools. Bocking contained many nonconformists, with whom Oakeley engaged in disputes about church rates. In 1841 Oakeley succeeded William Lyall in the archdeaconry of Colchester; and when the bishopric of Gibraltar was founded in 1842, it was offered to him, though he declined it. He died in London on 27 March 1845. He wrote for private circulation short poems, and a memoir of his father.

Family

On 5 June 1826 Oakeley was married at St. Margaret's Church, Westminster, to Atholl Keturah Murray, daughter of Lord Charles Murray Aynsley. She died on 26 January 1844. They left four sons, of whom the eldest, Charles William, succeeded to the baronetcy, and the second, Herbert (1830–1903), was

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at Edinburgh; and three daughters.

Notes

;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Oakeley, Herbert 1791 births 1845 deaths 19th-century English Anglican priests Archdeacons of Colchester Baronets in the Baronetage of Great Britain Christian clergy from Chennai People from Bocking, Essex